What is your true nature?

[Guest guest]

(The following story by Grant Connolly shows what I'm referencing with my

previous TM post. Have fun. John La Tourrette, PhD)

 

I know you've all heard the story of the young Lion cub who

was adopted by a shepherd when his mother died. The Shepherd

felt sorrow when he looked upon the young cub trying to

suckle from his mother's dead body and decided to bring up

the young cub alongside his Sheep.

 

And as the cub grew he came to believe he was a Sheep and

quite naturally did as Sheep do. Every day the Shepherd

would take his flock, including the young and growing Lion,

down to the river to drink their fill, where the Sheep would

graze peacefully beside the river in the late afternoon sun.

 

But the young Lion found himself growing increasingly

unhappy. He wondered why he was unhappy and looked around

the flock to see the contented faces of his brothers and

sisters. And try as he might to fit in, he found he

couldn't and he just didn't know why. And the bigger and

stronger he grew the more restive he became. But not

knowing anything else, he lived with those feelings and

tried even harder to fit in.

 

One day after many years the now full grown Lion was

grazing with his brothers and sisters alongside the river

in the late afternoon sun. Suddenly he heard a tremendous

roar from the small clearing across the river. He looked up

to see another Lion, just like himself, standing there

looking at him from across the river.

 

And then again the other Lion gave forth a mighty roar and

our Lion who had been raised all this time to believe he

was a Sheep, suddenly knew who he really was. He knew

within himself that he wasn't the same as his brothers and

sisters. He knew he was a lion and no longer needed to live

as Sheep do. And in that instant he accepted his true nature

and became who he really was, a mighty Lion.

 

Some who are reading this might wonder what became of our

Lion. Ask yourself, what becomes of those who step into

their true nature?

 

You are like that Lion. You've been brought up to believe

that you are something far less than what you truly are.

It's not your fault, it's just the way things are right

now. But truthfully, don't you often feel as that young

Lion did, that there must be something more?

[Guest guest]

> Some who are reading this might wonder what became of our

> Lion. Ask yourself, what becomes of those who step into

> their true nature?

>

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And what became of the sheep?

rusty